FriendFeed Blog: FriendFeed accepts Facebook friend request
Being at work really sucks sometimes. Three hours after the fact is when I find out that Facebook bought FriendFeed. Which is good for the FriendFeed guys: startup gets bought by a big online player, but sucks for users of FriendFeed. It was a much simpler service to use.
Facebook grew too much for my liking. And it was more closed off than FriendFeed and Twitter. Creating revenue is necessary for all online businesses, and especially hard for social networks, therefore, targetd advertising was necessary evil. Ads on Facebook targeted at me were all for Montreal Singles, it felt like the old pre-Google internet days when every search turned up porn.
Facebook has been great at finding long lost friends who found their way to the other side of the world. But once I found them, I took down their e-mail address and used e-mail to contact them, and other services that I registered for before I signed on to Facebook.
FriendFeed on the other hand felt more usefull and productive than Facebook. Actually, it felt like Twitter on steroids. The idea of no ads were nice, but I'll admit I was curious to find out how long an ad-free experience would last.
But the two were different in one more important way, FriendFeed, like Twitter encouraged you to follow people yoou found interesting online, where as Facebook encouraged you follow people you actually know. It is a little more private by default, and your profile on FriendFeed could be locked down with a few extra clicks, but again, FriendFeed is more about sharing with everyone.
Hopefully Facebook will pick up a few features from FriendFeed. If it doesn't, I might stick to Twitter only.
Being at work really sucks sometimes. Three hours after the fact is when I find out that Facebook bought FriendFeed. Which is good for the FriendFeed guys: startup gets bought by a big online player, but sucks for users of FriendFeed. It was a much simpler service to use.
Facebook grew too much for my liking. And it was more closed off than FriendFeed and Twitter. Creating revenue is necessary for all online businesses, and especially hard for social networks, therefore, targetd advertising was necessary evil. Ads on Facebook targeted at me were all for Montreal Singles, it felt like the old pre-Google internet days when every search turned up porn.
Facebook has been great at finding long lost friends who found their way to the other side of the world. But once I found them, I took down their e-mail address and used e-mail to contact them, and other services that I registered for before I signed on to Facebook.
FriendFeed on the other hand felt more usefull and productive than Facebook. Actually, it felt like Twitter on steroids. The idea of no ads were nice, but I'll admit I was curious to find out how long an ad-free experience would last.
But the two were different in one more important way, FriendFeed, like Twitter encouraged you to follow people yoou found interesting online, where as Facebook encouraged you follow people you actually know. It is a little more private by default, and your profile on FriendFeed could be locked down with a few extra clicks, but again, FriendFeed is more about sharing with everyone.
Hopefully Facebook will pick up a few features from FriendFeed. If it doesn't, I might stick to Twitter only.
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